I've organized and reviewed here a number of books and booklets on the MBTI, Myers Briggs and Personality Type for those who would like to apply an understanding of MBTI Personality Type to aspects of their personal or work lives. Many of these print publications are also available in a digital or e-reader format for kindle's and other e-readers.

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Very popular and durable career book, based on MBTI Personality Types, by Paul and Barbara Barron Tieger. It has been updated for newly emerging careers. Useful for self-study or as an aid to career counseling professionals. [Ordering Info Here]

A career planning book by Psychologist Donna Dunning, based on Myers Briggs Personality Type, that both mid-life career changers and new workforce entrants have found quite helpful. [Ordering Info Here]

Susan Cain has written a best-selling book on the barriers introverts face in a world dominated by extraversion with advice for introverts and extraverts alike for how to make best use of the skills and perspectives that introverts bring to our communities, to relationships, and the working world. This book covers only one aspect of Personaltiy Type, Introversion and Extraversion, however, this is the most widely recognized and perhaps most powerful dimension of Jung's theory of Personality Types.

Shoya Zichy, past President of APTNY, the Myers-Briggs Association of NY, is an experienced consultant & counselor utilizing one-on-one career coaching using the MBTI assessment, Color Q and the Strong Interest Inventory. Career Match includes in-depth chapters for each personality type and detailed explanations of career options to help anyone in need of direction match who they are with what they should do -- for a lifetime of gratifying work and greater success.

Charles Martin has been writing about Personality Type for many years and is well recognized in this field. His new book on careers won't tell you what kinds of careers are best for your Personality Type - but rather it is a general, but very practical, guide to career planning and career management that takes into account the differences due to personality. [Ordering Info Here]

Paul and Barbara-Barron Tieger are well known for their books on career choice and communication (speed reading people). Here they turn their talents to helping people in romantic and committed relationships.

Author of the popular Understanding Yourself and Others® series of books on Personality Types and Temperament, organizational consultant Linda Berens has spent over thirty years teaching professionals as well as helping individuals and teams recognize their strengths, transcend their weaknesses, and work together better. She is an internationally recognized educator in applying Personality Types and Temperament to individual and organizational development. I have several of her books and booklets in my personal library [Ordering Info Here]

Roger Pearman, Robert Eichinger, and Michael Lombardo are authors of this book on self-development using knowledge of the MBTI to build skills and improve relationships in both work and non-work roles. One reviewer noted its focus on ". . . team work with co-workers, developing effective communication skills with a work purpose in mind, and becoming a better workplace leader and team player, handling meetings with superiors and subordinates, conflict, goal setting, fitting in, etc." [Ordering Info Here]

Even though psychologist Naomi Quenk is only a little over 5 feet tall, she is one of the giants in the field of Personality Type! One of her prime fascinations has been with the dynamics of stress and personality type. She is well known for originating a concept called "In the Grip" to describe what happens when different types can be overtaken by an "evil twin." This book is an expansion and updating of her earlier book "Besides Ourselves." [Ordering Info Here]

Janet Penley has many years of experience coaching mothers and parents on incorporating personality types into our parenting styles. This book gathers together these experiences into a unique and useful guide on mothering. In the words of one reviewer "Motherstyles is different from anything else I've come across. After
reading ONE PAGE I purchased it on the spot. A few more pages and I was
already laughing and crying, feeling deeply affirmed as a mother and
energized by the powerful truths this book contains. . . " [Ordering Info Here]

Executive coaches, personal development coaches, and individuals interested in self-development will find this a helpful workbook.

Margaret and Gary Hartzler are veteran educators and researchers of Myers-Briggs personality type and the MBIT® instrument and are among the small corp of practitioners responsible for bringing the Type Indicator and the Myers model into mainstream psychology and human relations. [Ordering Info Here]

Dario Nardi provides a handbook on self-improvement using the four mental functions and our introverted and extraverted selves as a template for self-development. I've also found the book helpful in understanding the "inner workings" of folks whose mental wiring is different from my own.

List of Resources to learn more about
Myers Briggs, the MBTI & Personality Types

* While sometimes referred to as the Myers-Briggs Personality Test, the Briggs Myers personality test, Myers Briggs Test or the MBTI test, the MBTI ® is not a personality test but a personality inventory or instrument in which there are no right or wrong answers.

® MBTI, Myers-Briggs, Meyers Briggs, and Myers-Briggs Type Indicator are registered trademarks or trademarks of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Trust in the United States and other countries (aka meyers briggs or myers briggs).

One major addition of Keirsey's second edition is "how the temperaments differ in the intelligent roles they are most likely to develop. Each of us, he says, has four kinds of intelligence -- tactical, logistical, diplomatic, strategic -- though one of the four interests us far more than the others, and thus gets far more practice than the rest."